Television has countless shows featuring doctors, scientists and criminologists. Everybody’s an expert complete with jargon to look the part. Skeletons are turning up at an alarming rate, and as writers would have it, each has complex multifaceted secrets found only by the technologically advanced super-sleuths whiz-bang space-age gizmos. We can all rest easy knowing that bones, hair strands and liquids can tell their story, no matter how complicated.
But wait, 600 years before Christ, the prophet Ezekiel saw an entire valley of dry bones! What was their story? Who speaks for them?
Ezekiel was asked by God, “Can these bones live?” Ezekiel was wise enough to say, “O Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” The Lord said to Ezekiel, prophesy to these bones, that the Lord will attach tendons to them, make flesh onto them, cover them with skin, and breathe life into them.
“So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.” Ezekiel 37:10
That was the vision Ezekiel saw. This is the interpretation. The dry bones are a picture of the Jews in captivity, scattered and dead, slain in battle, a description of the hopeless condition of the nation of Israel. The bones represent helpless Israel. The Holy Spirit will regenerate the people. The vision depicts the political and spiritual revival of Israel that is to come.
Just as God promised to restore his nation, he can also restore any soul or church, no matter how dry or dead their bones may be.
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